PRESIDENT Rodrigo Duterte is not acting as counsel or negotiator for the family of the late President Ferdinand Marcos, the Palace said Wednesday.

Presidential Spokesman Ernesto Abella was responding to the statement by the Campaign Against the Return of the Marcoses to Malacanang (Carmma), which slammed the President for being an apparent lobbyist of the Marcoses by saying in a speech that the Marcoses were willing to return some of their ill-gotten wealth, including a “few gold bars”.

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